Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 12:29:14 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: successful installation of win98se on a thinkpad A21p (sort of) Message-ID: <200105191629.f4JGTE901415@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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It took craftiness, but I finally got it going--but I had to cheat. The win98 that comes with the machine won't execute under the vmware bios, except in safe mode. THe general win98 cd we have (not from ibm; the penn state cut) won't boot within vmware. THe first boot disk we had made hung the virtual machine when trying to load the cd driver. What I had to do was install the 2.0.4-1142.tar.gz release candidate on a linux partition, in which I'd installed a 2.4.4 kernel. (For the record, installation in FreeBSD is *much* easier than in Debian . . . go figure . . .). Within linux and with 2.0.4, I was able to boot from a duplicate of the win98 boot floppy supplied by microsoft (it wouldn't work with 2.0.3 under freebsd; simular hanging over the cd). I did the installation and installation of vmware tools under linux. Rebooting into FreeBSD, I copied the win98 directory back to the bsd home directory, and everything runs well. In fact, the sound works better than it did in linux, wherein it was choppy. hawk, moving on to networking -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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